Sonic Advance 3 needs more love

Just why is everyone hating Sonic Advance 3 so much? I don't think it was bad in any way, in fact I think it's very underrated. I don't see anything wrong with the gameplay or engine and I think the music is the best in the Sonic Advance series. Also, the 2-player co-op is good fun if you and a friend both have a SA3 Game Pak and a link cable.

What do you think?

That most people doen't have link cables anymore.
I think The games Fine, It just seems a little much like it's predesseors,

Cause you can basicly hold the -> key in these advance games to complete half the lvl.

I like the original Sonic Advance, Sonic Advance 2 was ok, and Sonic Advance 3 SUCKED. Also, you're wrong. If anything Sonic Advance 3 is overrated. All I hear is praise about that game.

This post has been edited by SonicProject on Jun 30 2007, 09:26 AM

I also want to know why the game is disliked.

This post has been edited by BanjoSonic on Jun 30 2007, 09:32 AM

Sonic Advance 3 is awesome.

Sonic Advence 2 was the worst of the series because the later levels were the type you had to completely memorize so you'd know when exactly to jump or else you'd DIE HORRIBLY. I hate when games do that.

The level design is horrible and the partner system was awful.

so anyways Sonic 2 is better than those silly advance games and every other sonic game created everrrrrrrrrr

Advance 3 was awful.

Sonic Advance 1 is a great game although that's probably just down to the fact the engine is almost identical to the MegaDrive games. Sonic Advance 2 is great too, although Cream's character makes it a little easy, but even then it's made up with the great choice in music, graphics, level design etc. It was also nice because even though it was a little different, it was pulled off well.

Advance 3's designers didn't think it through, and ported the Advance 2 engine made for running quickly to a game that played more like Advance 1, and because of this you get problems because they don't mix properly. Yeah, the only time I've played Advance 3 was in it's pre-release form (Which was essentially a completed version but without bugfixes) but even so, it wasn't fun. The characters move incredibly fast but the levels often require tactical jumping, of which that engine doesn't do well at all.

It's also accompanied by it's poor choice in music (Seriously those GHz remixes are not good. Do not keep bringing us the crappyness that is GHz's music, and certianly don't reproduce it with the squeekier instruments that the GBA has built in. Also way to ruin that SA2 song from the techno level by remixing that), and generally poor level design (Lobbies suck in 2D games, and these ones make it more of a challenge to find the level than the level itself).

Also the partner thing was of no use at all. Why were they advertising something that they did in 1992 as being one of the game's selling points? The fact that the SA2 engine is installed means that these characters have very little use anyway, because it's too quick for them. 2-player, fine, but not needed for 1-player. I was under the impression it would be a bit more like Chaotix where both partners had a use.

So anyway there's my little rant.

I think that it was hella easy and not worth the money I spent on it renting it from Blockbuster.

I'm putting it really bluntly, but the fact is I hated that game.

BS: Finally someone who doesn't HATE SAdv2.

I never really liked SA2 as much as the other two games, generally because the level design was actually below-average. There were too many enemies, particularly on straight runs, paths and rails, too many bottomless pits and the levels themselves overused those R-tricks. Also, Cream was an extremely cheap character when it came to bosses because of that Chao attack.

EDIT: I also want to add that some of SA2's music was a bit too "screechy" for my tastes.

This post has been edited by BanjoSonic on Jun 30 2007, 12:37 PM

all the sonic advance games sucked

New Sonic games suck.

Genesis Sonic games FTW

Sonic Rush and Sonic and the Secret Rings were okay.

Sonic Rush is the only handheld Sonic game that was awesome.

SAd1 blew, the levels were designed with a ****load of atrocious speed traps.

SAd2 was okay until the canyon level, at which point every stage had a ****load of grind rails that stop over bottomless pits

SAd3 was the only one I thought was decent, but all three of them are subpar anyway why are we discussing this crap for the billionth time.

Because this is Serious Buisness.

I remember playing it and the levels just kept going on...and on..it got kinda boring

I thought the purpose of Cream was to make the game more accessible for beginners.